Senior Product Designer - Payments at Perk

About Us Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work. At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team. Visit www.perk.com [Upgrade to PRO to see link] to learn more. About the role Payments is one of our most strategic product areas — directly shaping revenue, cost-to-serve, customer trust, and long-term scalability. The group owns everything from the core money movement platform powering the Perk ecosystem, through to customer checkout and subscription management experiences. It's a critical enabler for teams and product lines across Perk, meaning the work here has broad reach across the business For payments to unlock that potential, it needs to be reliable, easy to operate, and invisible to customers — a seamless experience that builds trust without friction. At Perk, we build in small, empowered teams that move fast and care deeply about the quality of what they ship. As the Senior Product Designer in this group, you'll own the experience, quality, and vision across a key area of our payments product. You'll uncover real user problems, shape how they get solved, and drive execution with the craft and attention to detail that makes the difference between good and great — working closely with product and engineering to build experiences that are simple, considered, and built to last. We're looking for someone with a proven track record in payments or payment-adjacent domains, who understands the nuance of building in a space where precision and user confidence go hand in hand. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Drive high-velocity execution in close collaboration with product and engineering, holding the bar on both craft and speed - Bridge user needs and business goals, making sure design has a clear voice in shaping what gets built and why - Conduct and synthesize user research to deeply understand customer problems, translating insights into clear, intuitive experiences that reduce complexity and guide users toward confident outcomes - Design experiences that help millions of employees and thousands of finance teams seamlessly manage expenses, cards, and invoice processing. - Prototype rapidly using tools like Claude and Cursor to explore interaction patterns early, accelerate decision-making, and shorten the path from idea to shipped product - Stay current on emerging AI trends and product patterns, building a clear point of view on what matters and bringing that perspective into how we design at Perk - Push design practice forward: championing the user inside the triad, contributing to a culture of high craft, and moving toward more iterative, AI-native ways of working WHAT YOU’LL NEED - Experience that counts: 5+ years of product design experience at a fast-growing tech company. Experience with Expense Management, FinTech, or SaaS products is a strong plus. - Payments domain strength: Proven experience in at least one core payment area (e.g., payments processing & orchestration, payment methods, subscription management) and familiarity with financial concepts (e.g., reconciliation, invoicing). - Strong customer empathy and design thinking, with a passion to understand the business traveler's journey — from booking intent through spend management — and the friction points unique to managed travel - Strong customer empathy and design thinking - Fluency in data, using qualitative and quantitative signals to validate design decisions, measure impact, and inform tradeoffs - Demonstrated ability to influence product direction inside cross-functional teams - Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and large cross-functional teams - Strong communication and storytelling skills, able to articulate design rationale, tradeoffs, and vision to product, engineering, and senior stakeholders - Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools. - Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git. How We Work At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work. For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume. Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you. 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